IOS Rentals v1.3

What's new in IOS Rentals v1.3

Version 1.3 of IOS Rentals car, moto and yacht rental software released today. The new version brings a bunch of new features and improvements to an already powerful online booking system making IOS Rentals even better. Existing customers can download for free the new version from within IOS Reservations control panel (section Updates).

Sub-companies

Sub-companies is a major new feature of IOS Rentals. They are copies of the main rental company with different title, contact information, payment methods, rental terms, extra services, logo, included in price items, tax, surety fee and more. With sub-companies you can, among others, provide different prices and services to different sites (XML/JSON API connections) and thus create different marketing strategies with the same vehicles fleet. You can, for example, have your main company titled as Super rent-a-car and 2 sub-companies titled as Cheap rentals and Luxury rentals respectively. The contact information and rest details of these companies may be the same or different.

Many features of IOS Rentals became company based. For instance you can create different extra services, like child seats and insurance, with different prices, for each sub-company and display them in different sites. When a customer makes a reservation he receives an email from that sub-company and the PDF voucher he receives also displays the details of that sub-company.

Improved payment system

Payment modules in IOS Rentals v1.3 can be copied and you can create different instances of them with different settings, for different sub-companies/sites. You can, for example have Paypal and Bank deposit payment methods in site A and Alpha Bank and Bank deposit (with different settings) payment methods in site B. Also Alpha Bank e-Commerce payment method now supports payments via Masterpass.

Information for the customer in PDF voucher

Many improvements made to the automatically generated PDF voucher. The biggest of them is the option to add your own data in PDF voucher. You will find the new feature to the top right Settings menu under the name Information for the customer. Via a user friendly interface you can create multilingual, company-based, data (titles, paragraphs, lists, even images) which will be attached to the reservation PDF voucher. There are unlimited use cases. You can, for example, provide information to the customer regarding your office location, cancellation policy, rental terms, insurances, or you can display a picture of your offices, your personnel, etc.

Cancel/Change reservation request

Customers can now send cancellation, change and information requests regarding their existing reservations. In API plugin below the availability search button a small link added which, if pressed, open a modal window via which a customer can request to cancel a reservation, or change it, or provide additional information. This link is been displayed automatically if you have enabled the Reservation cancel setting in IOS Rentals.

Full changelog of IOS Rentals v1.3

• Display balance due in PDF invoice and edit booking page.
• When sending PDF voucher to customer view his name/email.
• Search rentals by reservation code and payment method
• Emission inspection and road assistance data for vehicles.
• Automatic email notifications on emission inspection/road assistance expiration.
• Automatic update database to v1.3
• Sub-companies
• Price includes system re-designed and are now fully configurable via a user friendly interface.
• Price includes XML importer
• Preselected quantity in extra services
• View the website that uses and API and clear their cache remotely.
• Plugin: Option to display actual and/or charge rental duration in search results and booking pages.
• Improved payment modules system. Create payment module copies with different settings.
• Pay with Alpha bank e-Commerce Masterpass
• Minisys library
• More detailed messages on no-working dates/hours.
• Improved PDF voucher (better logo positioning, better page footer, other improvements).
• Information for the customer in PDF voucher
• Vehicles fleet page: Fuel filter is now visible
• Plugin: Cancel/Change reservation request
• Automatic cancellation (configurable) of non confirmed reservations is now fully functional.
• Keep collapsed groups/models when using navigation links in availability page.

Read also

• IOS AERO 1.5
• IOS AERO 1.3
• IOS Hotels demo site
• Payments with Stripe
• IOS AERO v1.2

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